We got to the Design Museum Saturday morning to find Bill outside really excited about something. This was good because we were really late and thought we’d be feeling his wrath that morning. Instead, he told us that he had walked into the museum café to see none other than Luigi Colani (who?) sitting there having breakfast, and he has agreed to give us a private tour of his show which was the main attraction of the museum at the moment. I wondered how bill recognized this man until I saw him sitting there with his dark hair and mustache clad in a white polyester suit…then I knew.
Luigi Colani is an industrial designer who is world renowned and I didn’t even know it. He designs trains, planes, cars, and basically any other kind of streamlined machine. He showed us videos of sharks and other animals and told us he is very inspired by nature. He also showed is the first Canon camera design that he was responsible for. He had the very first camera there and I asked him if he had ever actually taken a picture with it… and he said no! It was great to watch him go through his own exhibit because he would let us sit on things, and he would knock things over and it wouldn’t matter because it was all his.
After the museum we headed to Borough Market for lunch which was AMAZING. Alicia and I got completely lost in the world of free samples, but finally decided on some falafel and smoothies. We also wanted these delicious looking grilled cheese sandwiches but decided 2 lunches in one day was enough and we just couldn’t handle it.
The Tate Modern was in the afternoon and I have to say I enjoyed the Dali & Film exhibit more than many I have seen. I never realized that Dali was a director, and it was so interesting to see his style in film. It just has such presence, and is so recognizable. Some of my favorite paintings were preliminary pieces done for movie sets that were eventually filmed. The picture above is my favorite painting of the movie still. My other favorite part of the exhibit was finding out that Dali & Disney at one point had teamed up and created Destino, a surrealist cartoon that was never made into a full length film. Seeing this blew my mind, it was Dali and Disney all in one. I was sitting with Brian and some of the other kids majoring in illustration and I could just see the wonder on their faces. I know I felt the same way they looked.
We also saw Helio Oiticica's Body of Color which on the whole I also enjoyed. I think having the opportunity to display abstract work like that in a museum setting is what gives it impact. They were patterns and blocks of color and they were often repeated which I liked. Overall, it was a very good day in London…AND I had my first sighting of London Bridge!
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